Line-ring for hames



(No Model.)

' M. LITTMANN. LINE RING FOR HAMES No. 416,633. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

Aas' 1 N. PEYERS. Filo Q UNITED l STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX LITTMANN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

LINE-Q-RING FOR HAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,633, dated December3, 1889.

Seriel No. 317,714. (No model.)

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Line-Rings forHames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to a swiveled linering whose bearings outside thering exercise a dominant favorable influence on the action of the ring,in contradistinction to a bearing or bearings within the ring, in whichthe action of said ring exercises adverse leverage on said bearings; andthe invention consists in features of noyelty hereinafter fullydescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure I is an edge View of ,a hame with my elongated swivel-bearingline-ring attached thereto, and Fig. II is a side View of the same.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the hame, and 2 the line-ring,the inner part of which line-ring forms an integral part of theswivel-bar 3, whose extension journal-pins 4 reach beyond the ring bothabove and beneath and work within the journal bearings or eyes 5 of thestaples 6, which are swaged around the journal-pins. The two journalbearings or eyes of said staples engage the journal-pins 4 respectivelyabove and below the ring between the projecting knobs 7 on the ends ofsaid journal-pins, which form guide-beads of larger diameter than thejournal-pins outside said staples and enlarged shoulders 8 between saidjournal-bearings and the line-ring, which form guide-beads of largerdiameter than the journal-pins inside said staples. The two limbs ofthe-staples are passed through perforations .9 in the metal strap 10 andthrough the hame, on the inside of which hame the points of said staplesare passed through the washers 11, to which they are secured by theirriveted ends 12, so as to firmly hold the swivel journalbearing of theline-ring in its attachment to the hames.

13 represents the tug-attachment staple,

which passes through perforations 14 in the shield-bracket 15 andthrough the hame, and v is secured by its riveted ends 16, that areclinched on the washers 17 on the inside of said hame; and 18 is thebreast-strap ring, which works within the eyelet 19 in the lug 20, thatprojects from said bracket.

Now it will be seen that the line-ring has a swivel-bar journal-bearingattachment beyond the ring itself both above and below. This provides afar more steady and reliable journal-bearing on which the line-ringswivels than could be effected either with the usual single journal-bearing of an eyeletbolt with a single central attachment or of adouble bearin g within the line-rin g and from the inner side of saidring. It will be seen that even in the latter case the action of thelines on the ring exerts a more or less adverse leverage on thebearings, so that they work wit-h less regularity and ease and are moreapt in time to get twisted and wrung ofi from their attachment. It willalso be seen that after the bearing attachments get twisted from thetrue the adverse leverage exerted on them increases in its adversity. Asthe swivel-bar and its journal-bearing in this'device is thus placedoutside or beyond the line-ring, it holds and governs by its favorableleverage, instead of being held and governed by the adverse leverageexerted by said ring under the constantlychanging movements of the linesin said ring. Also, by the increased distance apart of the perforationsthrough the hame for seating the staple than that used Where either asingle or double eyebolt or staple secures the attachment within thering, the hame is itself much stronger and less liable to break whereperforated, as said cut-aways are too far removed from each other to runmuch risk of the hame splitting ona line from one to the other, as itsometimes does when under-a heavy draft, when the staple-holes arenecessarily near together, when the attachment is from points within thering. The said tendency to break when under a heavy draft-strain acrossthe line of adjacent holes is also decreased by the aforesaid-statedfact that there is in my device no adverse leverage being exerted onshanks formed integral, the said eyes formthe ournal-bearings whoseattachments are ing bearings for the journals, substantially 1o seatedWithin said perforations. as described.

I claim as my invention 1 T The combination, with a hame, of a line- MAXLI'lTMANL' ring provided With two j'ournalsextending In presenceofoutside of said ring on the side adjacent to BENJN. A. KNIGHT,

said hame, and two staples having eyes and SAML. KNIGHT.

